HOWTO: MOL 0.965 and Yellow Dog 2.3 (HTML E-Mail) also a quick not on Networking....

[Jose Farina]

Hi all:
For more than a month I have been trying to install MOL 0.9.65 on YDL 
2.3 running on my Ibook and on my Imac.
Since I'm  a newbie in both linux and MOL I tried everything, also 
compiling new kernels (with disastrous results)
Finally I found that if you follow the step-by step guide of Jamie 
posted on sept 29  (see the subject) BUT STARTING FROM STEP 
2...everything will work fine...
I IDID NOT COMPILED A NEW KERNEL
so I did (see the original message from jamie for detailed 
instructions)...

Step 2:
I downloaded the MOL files from internet
mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.src.rpm
and
mol-0.9.65-1.ppc.rpm
and save it in any directory...example /root/

Step 3:
REMOVED THE PREVIOUS VERSION OF MOL (a VERY IMPORTANT STEP), but since 
I cant understand the original commands of jamie (rpm =ADqa | grep mol 
?)
I use a more primitive version....
rpm -q MOL
that gave me the MOL version already installed....for example MOL-XX
then I deleted this version...
rpm -e MOL XX
then I asked for the modules...
rpm -q mol.kmods
that gave me the mol.kmods version already installed....for example 
mol.kmods-XX
then I deleted this modules...
rpm -e mol.kmods-XX

Step 4 I Rebuild the Kernel modules files...
from the same directory were I saved the mol files...example cd /root/
I said...
rpm --rebuild ./mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.src.rpm
and moved the new generated files (mol-kmods-0.9.65-1.ppc.rpm) from 
/usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc to were I originally downloaded the mol 
files..example /root/...
mv /usr/src/rpm/RPMS/ppc/mol-kmods-0.965-1-ppc.rpm /root/
and then

step 5
I installed MOL (the order of installation is critical also...first the 
modules then the application!!!)
rpm -i mol-kmods-0.9.65.1.ppc.rpm
rpm -i mol-0.9.65-1.ppc.rpm

from there I followed step 6 to step 8 of Jamie step-step guide...

A caution note: I do not know if is important but....I did this in both 
my Ibook and Imac.  In both computers  I got YDL 2.3 Development 
package installed (I do not if it will work in the YDL 2.3 Home/Office 
package)
I hope that this instructions helps.

KONGO

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Dr. Jose M Farina
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Brown University
80 Waterman St
Providence
RI 02912
USA

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